Planquette, (Jean) Robert (1848–1903)

French composer. He studied briefly at the Paris Conservatory and then wrote songs that were performed at café-concerts. From this he passed on to operettas, the fourth of which, Les cloches de Corneville (1877), was immensely successful.

Works Operettas Valet de cœur, Le serment de Mme Grégoire, Paille d'avoine (1874), Les cloches de Corneville (1877), Le Chevalier Gaston (1879), Les Voltigeurs de la 32me (The Old Guard), La Cantinière, Rip van Winkle (after Washington Irving, 1882), Nell Gwynne (1884), La cremaillère, Surcouf (Paul Jones), Capitaine Thérèse, La cocarce tricolore, Le talisman, Panurge (after Rabelais, 1895), Mam'zelle Quat' Sous (1897), and Le Paradis de Mahomed (produced in 1906).